Leadership Development within XXX Ltd Case Study

Leadership Development within XXX Ltd - Case Study typeCharismatic leaders were attributed powerful qualities by those who follow them traditional leaders were powerful by virtue of hereditary wealth or peerage legal leading draws its power from professional knowledge and technical expertise, and formal potentiality was legitimised through roles or position in the bureaucratic hierarchy. As such, formal authority is legitimated by subordinates understanding and respecting rules and authority (Buchanan, Huczynski, 2003, pp. 90-98). In contrast to Webers approach, more recent sociological approaches to leadership have been more concerned with notions of power rather than leadership per se. As such, the study of leadership is less about the individual and more about how power structures allow domination and control over others.XXX Ltd. has considered leadership programmes that give their employees with a self-directed career path that initiates their individual and professional dev elopment within the company. Buchanan and Huczynski (2003, pp. 90-98) discusses that the programmes courses present a number of leadership activities that enhances the learning abide by whilst sharpening the skills of the leaders and their leadership skills within the company. XXX Ltd. has given their employees the opportunity to utilise these leadership development programs in initiating the growth of their career and to cultivate business mixture and cross-functional flexibility. These programmes are offered up to the high potential employees who are deserving of succeeding through the various stages of the leadership development process on both a novice and forward-looking level. Either level of the programme will hold specialised leadership activities that sustain the six sigma methodologies and incorporate a 360-Degree feedback approach to a multi-faceted learning purlieu that incorporates classroom learning with multi-business rotational assignments. This paper discusses l eadership development in the context of XXX Ltd. in a concise and comprehensive way. The paper similarly discusses key concept and theories of leadership development i.e. transformational leadership, transactional leadership and other key concepts and theories.Aims and the Objective of the Study The aim of this study is to discuss leadership development in XXX Ltd and to critically examine BMs Integrated Leadership Framework for middle managers in particular its effectiveness in developing the required transformational leadership capabilities, with a view to developing a set of practicable recommendations for enhanced practice. This study tries to achieve the following aims and objectives.a-This study achieves a critical literature review on Leadership, especially on contemporary transformational leadership and describes, in particular, the potential benefits, challenges and recommendations of good practice. b- The study aims to profile BMs Leadership Framew